Done with Spring Waltz and desperately seeking more icy woobie dramas...

[dangermousie]

Finished Spring Waltz. What will I fixate on now?

I adored the first 18 and a half eps and loved the sweet ending, but the ep or so in-between I was meh about. It got too kdramaish not in an excellent way.

Still, the OTP was awesome, the design gorgeous etc etc etc...It's definitely going on my favorites list.



* The reunion on the island and their night together and playing in the ocean lovelovelovelovelove.

* I totally loathed his adoptive parents. WTF - when they tell his birth dad that the secret being out would harm Jae Ha so he has to conceal it. Sorry, it won't harm Jae Ha, they will just harm evil parents. Or when Daddy Evilest is all "it's your fault, you disappointed us" to Jae Ha. WTF? Did nobody point out to him they were the one who engaged in illegal, evil acts? Jae Ha didn't do a thing wrong. And then at the end we were supposed to buy them being happy and OK - nope. Want them to be eaten by bears.

* Too much forgiveness going around overall. Nope, still not buying Secondary Girl was not insane. Hell, it was her fault Jae Ha injured himself and can't play. Also, Phillip's comment about Jae Ha forgiving birth Daddy (i.e. he should, it's a good thing). BLEH.

* The bit where he was injured and yet insisted on playing with blood dripping on keys? I ate it up like emo candy.

* Why did Jae Ha not want Eun Young to know about his injury or went away for her sake? Huh? Was he worried she'd feel guilty? That was sort of a logic lapse. Oh well, he was a total mess by that point, I forgive him.

* GUH REUNION IN AUSTRIA ON BRIDGE SCARF SMILE RUNNING HUGGING DEAD AM DEAD AM DEAD

* I love that they ended up living on that island she is from, blissfully happy in their adorable house, cooking together, with his kid brother, and him teaching and just adorableness. Oddly, I don't think it was a tragedy that he can't be a professional pianist any more - he was excellent at it and I think on some level liked it, but not only can he still write music, it was forced on him and so tangled with his identity issues.

Now I need another icy woobie/spunky girl romance. Someone recommend? PLEASE?

Hmmm, maybe I'll just rewatch that ultimate bad boy/good gal kdrama All In. I mean, he is an ex-convict and she is an ex-nun. Mmmm, I love this MV:

I never really metaed about it properly because I gulped it down in 3 days on the way to Italy and at jet-lagged nights. But suffice it to say I love it and not just because of the insane leading couple chemistry.

Hmmm. I think I will rewatch. Or at least cap the sex scene :D

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the separation at the end is the low point of the series for me because it makes nothing resembling any kind of sense and is just there to add angst and then have a reunion.

ETA: Interestingly, I just finished a book about an icy assassin heroine with a nice, supportive guy, but it's (a) YA (though moderately dark for the genre) and (b) fantasy (though extremely light on the fantasy) so probably not your thing. And not a drama.

[darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com]

Was that not the most ridiculously happy ending you've ever seen? They get married! They adopt a small ruffian child! They live in a picturesque house by the sea and he's a schoolteacher and she brings him lunch and their feuding families come together and everyone lives HAPPILY EVER AFTER! I kept expecting someone to get run over by a car in the last few seconds.

Also, watch this and tell me I'm crazy and didn't sleepwalk through 3:17?

I'm looking for another romance too. I've tried about six dramas in the past few days but I keep losing interest because they're not Spring Waltz.

[bae-mac.livejournal.com]

Fine. I'll admit. After reading all of your posts, I am going to re-watch this.

Your posts can be really convincing most of the time,dear!

:D

[ambergold.livejournal.com]

The all-important question: does All In have a happy ending? Because my life's too short to watch tragedies.

[joonni.livejournal.com]

I LOVED the reunion scene on the bridge! More so because the music fit so perfectly.

But I just saw the vid that darkeyedwolf posted and there were some scenes that were not in the broadcast version. Damn. And they were good scenes of longing and separation. I love those types of scenes.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I just watched/loved a drama with angsty icy woobie that I loved = Fly High.

It goes like this:
She:
is married into Korean impoverished aristocracy. She has a little child, a boy. Her husband is in coma after a car accident (7 years already). Just before the accident the husband intended to divorce (because of the other woman), but the wife doesn't know about this. The wife finds out that he had divorce papers ready. The husband dies (naturally).

He:
An icy woobie with bad maternal problems (was abandoned as a child).

I am not sure if this is your thing 100% - they both are about 30 years old and not at school. I think the man is yonger but this isn't the main point of the story, the story is more about maternal angst, forbidden love and all such things. The main guy is great as ICY WOOBIE. The other guy is the older brother from "Kongdom of the Wind" and he is great too. He gets a nice OTP at the end. The main lady is quite feisty (but sort of cinderella in her husband's family), it all starts with the main girl slapping the main guy. GOOD START.

[astrothsknot.livejournal.com]

Sex scenes are good for the soul